Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 3 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 4 | Quickly they finished , and left , severally going back to No. 43 . |
| 5 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 6 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 7 | So get back to work , stream down those torch beams , work overtime , burn the candle at both ends , slog on when I 'm asleep , and remember , I 'm supporting you . |
| 8 | So get back to nature , try alternatives to conventional toiletries and techniques , and discover some New Age solutions to your health and beauty problems . |
| 9 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 10 | Well er watch how you go you 'd better go back to bed now I suppose . |
| 11 | " Better go back to Nildro-hain . |
| 12 | Ooh , I 'd better go back to work had n't I ? |
| 13 | Just to come back to Councillor point . |
| 14 | In front of the stove it soon came back to life , and then he could return it to its mother . |
| 15 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 16 | WITH Britain 's economy just coming back to life , its car production rose by 7.7% last month to the highest March level for 19 years . |
| 17 | I have to admit that after three years of using Q&A I have n't memorized all of the mainly function key-driven keyboard shortcuts , but those that I ca n't remember are easily brought back to mind with a tap of the F1 key which lists them . |
| 18 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 19 | By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work . |
| 20 | just go back to bed . |
| 21 | Hey , thanks for trying , but maybe I 'll just go back to bed with my cocoa and my Simply Red CD , if you do n't mind awfully . |
| 22 | She wished she could just go back to bed and start the day all over again , only somehow making it turn out completely normal this time . |
| 23 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 24 | Needs are always related back to capitalism 's demand for the social reproduction of its labour force . |
| 25 | As other members of the pride moved in to share the meal , the remaining zebras in the herd at first startled by the drama quickly settled back to grazing . |
| 26 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 27 | Anyone who wants to change anything will have to somehow change it without altering the figures because they 're settled and we know that if we ever go back to No. 10 or the Cabinet we 'll always get the backing of the Prime Minister and the appellant will always be overturned . ’ |
| 28 | never had binding , never had binding court agreements because mothers could always go back to court and say this fifteen pounds is n't enough . |
| 29 | I tried both violin and piano , but always went back to guitar . ’ |
| 30 | There he was gradually nursed back to health , but another eight years passed before he became champion again . |